“The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.”
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People Quotes — page 649 of 5018
“Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get older they're not creating more glory days. They reflect on a time that they will never reach again, and it brings some level of dissatisfaction into their lives. I have circumvented that by simply making incumbent upon myself to always be productive in ways that are consistent with my physical body, my mental state of knowledge, but more important, my presumed growth in wisdom that would come with age.”
“... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.”
“I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.”
“Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?”
“Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.”
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”
“People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens of ways to consume my offerings, and a lecture in a large venue is really only just one of them. So I have no concerns about how much access people would have to me no matter what is the capacity of your pocketbook.”
“I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.”
“I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.”
“I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.”
“I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.”
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
“People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.”
“I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.”
“How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?”
“You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.”
“Loved people are loving people.”
“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”
“The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.”